Can D used for BIG-HUGE projects?

[aberba]

On Monday, 21 December 2020 at 17:00:52 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 December 2020 at 03:06:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Same for me. Our codebase at work is roughly similar in size, 
> mostly Java/Groovy with small components written in C++ and Go. 
> It's actually really nice how easy it is to navigate the Java 
> code in IntelliJ - only once have I had an issue finding where 
> some old functionality was implemented, and that was because 
> the code was loading classes at runtime from another module 
> with nothing to indicate the connection between it and that 
> module. When I think about trying to trace the flow of 
> execution through a big D project, most of which I didn't 
> write, that makes heavy use of metaprogramming... I think it 
> would be far more painful.

I wish to know more from folks using D... about their experience 
with heavily templated codebase maintenance without tooling 
support.